Saturday, July 13, 2019
Gomer Pyle, USMC, expert on the Armalite series of rifles
You know Armalite, the famous inventors of the AR-7, the .22 Long Rifle semi-automatic survival weapon designed for downed pilots to fend off invading hordes of squirrels at 50 yards.
Assault that, mutherfuckers.
Friday, July 12, 2019
58% of total increase to employment level since Trump election has gone to minorities, level for whites up just 2.5%
4.2 million jobs for minorities, 3 million for whites, not seasonally adjusted.
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Just a reminder that Justin Amash used the newspaper of blackface to announce he was leaving the GOP
And he just voted with the Democrats to hand out green cards like candy.
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Hm, guy born to Jewish parents but raised on a poultry farm notes quadrupling of anti-Christian attacks in France since 2008, where taking census data by race or religion has been against the law since 1872
Anti-Christian Attacks in France Quietly Quadrupled. Why?:
Still, the available evidence shows that attacks carried out by Muslims, both in France and elsewhere in Europe, account for a small fraction of anti-Christian crimes. Indeed, one reason alleged “Christianophobia” is being downplayed by the French government is the fear of stoking Islamophobia – the concern that some people would instinctively blame Muslims for the attacks and retaliate (which has not happened).“For the majority of the attacks, we have no idea of the perpetrator,” Ellen Fantini, a former federal prosecutor in New Hampshire who heads the Observatory on Discrimination and Intolerance in Vienna, said in a telephone interview. But, Fantini continued, “it's safe to say that there are many attacks that have nothing to do with extremist groups.”
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Monday, July 8, 2019
Rush The Ridiculous must be reading online again, claims Aristippus of Cyrene was the first to say "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die"
The line quoted here is not actually attributed to Aristippus as a quotation, but rather as a conclusion of his philosophy, which in its turn goes too far. As usual Rush reads the first hit on Al Gore's amazing internet, reads it badly, and believes it.
Skull full of mush much?
Skull full of mush much?
Epicurus is traditionally credited with the idea because we have an actual line which is similar, but it is so widespread in antiquity it is difficult to know who first came up with it.
At any rate the ethical hedonism taught by both Aristippus and Epicurus involved self-mastery, not license.
Not that the licentious sense was unknown in antiquity.
The Greek geographer Strabo (64BC-24AD) knew it, purportedly from an Assyrian inscription on the tomb of Sardanapallus, legendary last king of Assyria, who was legendarily decadent:
The Greek geographer Strabo (64BC-24AD) knew it, purportedly from an Assyrian inscription on the tomb of Sardanapallus, legendary last king of Assyria, who was legendarily decadent:
Sardanapallus, the son of Anacyndaraxes, built Anchiale and Tarsus in one day. 'Eat, drink, be merry, because all things else are not worth this,' meaning the snapping of the fingers. -- Strabo, Geographica, 14.5.9f.
Isaiah the prophet knew it in the 8th century BC, antedating any Greek knowledge by hundreds of years:
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating
flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall
die. -- Isaiah 22:13.
And of course Paul of Tarsus knew it in the middle of the 1st century AD, which is how most of us in the Christian West know the lines:
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what
advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to
morrow we die.
-- I Corinthians 15:32.
Here endeth the lesson.
Here endeth the lesson.
Good Lord, Christian Nancy French, wife of David, is a small sea of confusion
French breakfast, or English?
She clearly does not understand C.S. Lewis, but no matter. The Christians don't read WaPo anyway.
The term “nationalism” carries with it ominous echoes of blood and soil, unsuitable for a nation composed of people from many different ethnicities and many different soils. ... As C.S. Lewis wrote in The Four Loves, patriotism asks “only to be let alone. It becomes militant only to protect what it loves. In any mind that has a pennyworth of imagination it produces a good attitude towards foreigners. How can I love my home without coming to realise that other men, no less rightly, love theirs? Once you have realised that Frenchmen like cafe complet just as we like bacon and eggs — why good luck to them and let them have it. The last thing we want is to make everywhere else just like our own home. It would not be home unless it were different.” ... This Sunday, it is great for Christians to show gratitude for a country that respects our liberty, but we should also extend incredible love and courtesy to people who differ from us.
Yeah, in their own countries. Yes, leave us alone! Don't come here and try to make this like your old home. If you come here you adopt our ways, our loves, our values. Otherwise, it's not really your home. Get out! This is our home. We speak English, honor the Christian God, revere the original constitution and the English common law, require self-sufficiency and self-restraint, reward individual merit, punish individual misconduct, and practice equality before the law (well, unless you're a Democrat).
She literally says in closing she's in the nation, but not of it.
No kidding.
Sunday, July 7, 2019
Peter Beinart September 2017 said mainstream left supported Antifa, now not so much
You can tell we're getting closer to the election when what the left said was definitely the case in 2017 is no longer the case in 2019, and we're just making it up.
The continuing crisis of housing bubble-itis
Housing prices in 2017 are overvalued north of 40%. The index commensurate with the pre-1993 period should be about 142 but is instead 203.
Adam Tooze notes US house prices relative to the rest of the world are low but still run ahead of Italy and Germany.
What would happen if 44 million German Americans and 17 million Italian Americans went back home looking for a bargain?
Saturday, July 6, 2019
Headline payrolls in 2019 may be overstating the real numbers by more than 25%
Months from now, the Establishment Survey will undergo its annual retrospective benchmark revision, based almost entirely on the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages conducted by the Labor Department. ...
The latest QCEW data are available through 2018, but note how much worse the 2018 QCEW data look than the Establishment Survey data, even though the two appear fairly similar in previous years, for which the latter has already undergone the requisite revisions. The Establishment Survey’s nonfarm jobs figures will clearly be revised down as the QCEW data show job growth averaging only 177,000 a month in 2018. That means the Establishment Survey may be overstating the real numbers by more than 25%.
Friday, July 5, 2019
Decrepit Newsweek Magazine skewers Border Patrol for pretending to show detention center while repeatedly showcasing French tanks from Bastille Day in Paris as if from a US July 4th parade
If you look closely you can see Mr & Mrs Trump and Mr and Mrs Macron applauding in the viewing area. Clearly the intent is to imply this is a #4thofJuly parade when it isn't.
There is no jobs boom but you'd never know it from the headlines
Are all these stories written by twenty-somethings? They are an offense to anyone with a knowledge of history:
"US adds robust 224,000 jobs in June" -- ABC
"Strong hiring in June: 224,000 new jobs, 3.7% unemployment" -- CBS
"Big month for jobs, big headache for Fed Chair Powell" -- NBC
"U.S. adds 224,000 jobs as hiring rebounds in June, calming worries about the economy" -- MarketWatch
"US labour market booms in June" -- BBC
"The US labor market rebounds in June, adding far more jobs than expected" -- Business Insider
"Jobs report smashes expectations" -- AOL
"Labor market comes roaring back as jobs see 'nice pop', economists say" -- MarketWatch
Meanwhile, the facts.
Trump has yet to put numbers on the board which distinguish payrolls as robust, strong, big, calming, booming, rebounding, smashing or roaring.
For roaring you have to look back to Reagan and Clinton. Trump is not in their league. So far he's not even as good as Obama for putting up big months (granted, over eight years), and is merely one term president Bush 41-league, the best comparison for comparable time in office. It ain't over 'til it's over, but 30 months in Trump has just two big months to his name, that's it, and the clock is ticking on the longest, but nowhere near best, economic expansion in history.
On a net population-adjusted basis there are as of 2018 5.2 million more Americans 16 to 64 years of age not in the labor force who used to be in it since low levels reached for respective age groups in 1989, 1995 and 1997, including one million fewer not in labor force age 25-54 since 1989. There are 2.8 million more 16-24 not in labor force in 2018 than in 1995 on a population adjusted basis, and 3.4 million more age 55-64 since 1997.
5.2 million people actually sitting on the sidelines added to payrolls in a real jobs boom would boost current monthly levels by 108,333 on an average basis over 4 years, in other words, well above 300,000 monthly.
The fools at CNBC write the dumbest headlines about jobs
"Strong job growth is back: Payrolls jump in June well above expectations"
The Civilian Employment Level is cyclical. It routinely bottoms in January and peaks in the summer with the cycle of seasonal part-time and full-time, the latter peaking in the summer months when millions of new graduates from high school and college get their first jobs.
So it is completely natural to have higher expectations for good jobs numbers in the summer, especially after four months of poorer performance than 224,000 Total Nonfarm Payrolls.
But if we were really having a jobs boom, "strong job growth", it would look like this, not like Trump's record so far with just two months out of thirty above 300,000:
Nine years after bottoming at 47% of population, full-time jobs still run millions behind
In the first half of 2019, full-time has recovered to 50% of population, still well below the previous average cycle high of 51.1%.
In the past full-time has recovered to 50% of population and above after just four years. We are in the ninth year and could easily have 2.7 million more working full-time in the first half of 2019 than we do presently at 50%.
It would take an extra 100,000 full-time jobs a month for another two-plus years straight to make up that difference, which just shows how pathetic it is that people routinely consider current job additions just north of 200,000 a month "strong".
Meanwhile population growth marches on, but those people are not being put to work.
Why continue to import immigrants then?
Why?
Our country is INSANE, doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.
Libertarianism kills: Boeing outsourced 737 Max software to $9/hour programmers from India to save money
It remains the mystery at the heart of Boeing Co.’s 737 Max crisis: how a company renowned for meticulous design made seemingly basic software mistakes leading to a pair of deadly crashes. Longtime Boeing engineers say the effort was complicated by a push to outsource work to lower-paid contractors.
The Max software -- plagued by issues that could keep the planes grounded months longer after U.S. regulators this week revealed a new flaw -- was developed at a time Boeing was laying off experienced engineers and pressing suppliers to cut costs.
Increasingly, the iconic American planemaker and its subcontractors have relied on temporary workers making as little as $9 an hour to develop and test software, often from countries lacking a deep background in aerospace -- notably India. ...
“Boeing was doing all kinds of things, everything you can imagine, to reduce cost, including moving work from Puget Sound, because we’d become very expensive here,” said Rick Ludtke, a former Boeing flight controls engineer laid off in 2017. “All that’s very understandable if you think of it from a business perspective. Slowly over time it appears that’s eroded the ability for Puget Sound designers to design.”
Rabin, the former software engineer, recalled one manager saying at an all-hands meeting that Boeing didn’t need senior engineers because its products were mature. “I was shocked that in a room full of a couple hundred mostly senior engineers we were being told that we weren’t needed,” said Rabin, who was laid off in 2015.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)